Videos, Sources & Storage

WordPress media library file sourcing

Updated April 10, 2023

How to store your videos on the WordPress Media Library and deliver them via SmartVideo

  1. While editing a page on WordPress, click on the SmartVideo logo to add a SmartVideo block. A placeholder video will be shown in the live preview.

Adding a SmartVideo block in the WordPress editor, with the placeholder video in the live preview

  1. Click the Select video button.

The Select video button on the SmartVideo block

  1. Click Upload Files, then drag and drop your video file from your computer.

Dragging a video file onto the Upload Files tab of the WordPress media uploader

  1. Once your video finishes uploading to WordPress, click Select.

Clicking Select once the video has finished uploading to WordPress

And that’s it! 🎉

A few moments after previewing or publishing the page, SmartVideo will download, encode, and store your video on our global delivery network. We recommend keeping the file stored in your WordPress Media Library so you always have the original copy at hand.

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